Dear Comrade the Leader, Episode 286
“Unfortunately… … But I have enough live ammunition… … .”
As if to scare the visitors, Rim-soo Kwon spitted at the notice that said briquettes were written in large letters.
As soon as Kwon Rim-soo finished the company work, he didn’t sleep right away and drove right away. Hongwon Land, of course, was a casino.
It is not a foreign currency earning casino for tourists, but the only casino in the republic that allows people to enter and exit.
Standing in front of the casino door, Kwon Rim-soo closed his eyes and took a deep breath as if he was trying to gather luck, but instead of calming down as originally intended, it seemed that excitement was already rushing in.
The memory of a pile of chips piled up in front of his table from one accidental hit (although I lost it twice right after that) made me gassy already, and the thought of touching the red and black chips makes my hands tremble with minute vibrations. He woke up and his eyes were bloodshot and bloodshot.
Already, the multi-colored patterns on the casino table and trump cards such as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clover seemed to be flirting around his head and tempting him.
The reason that the innocent Kwon Rim-soo, who knew only online games, reached this point was his participation in the Internet poker game project conducted by his company, Dog and Pig Games.
I happened to be part of a team that asked me to make a mobile poker game for adults at a company, but I was studying card games that I had never heard of before because of work-related classes and curiosity, so I suddenly wanted to play with real cards instead of a computer monitor. I grew up in this mind.
He secretly brought his car to Hongwon Land like a person who took a few vacations and secretly tried putting tens of thousands of won into the slot machine, but soon became a ‘regular’ pouring half of his salary into Hongwon Land. .
And the rest is just as easy as it is for other gambling addicts, the stakes grow bigger and bigger, and if you win once, you lose five times, and you go in and out of pawnshops and even receive emergency cash assistance from your credit card. has even set foot in .
At one time, he liked computer games more than anyone, so he spent all night playing games brought in by South Korean merchants via Japan and became a game developer.
It wasn’t that Kwon Rim-soo himself was unaware of his situation from any moment, and he promised thousands of times that he should stop and not even set foot in South Hamgyong Province, but when he comes to his senses, he opens the all-natural gate of Hongwon Land again. I was walking into the casino.
It was already too late to turn back.
“This is the last time. last. just once. He made up for the sins he had lost in the past with just one sip… … .”
“friend? Is that right, comrade Kwon Rim-soo? I came from the Ministry of Public Security, and I had to talk to us for a while. Please kindly cooperate.”
While murmuring like a drunken man, Kwon Rim-soo, who was walking quickly across the hotel lobby to the casino where men in suits controlled access, woke up to a voice from behind and looked back.
Several men in plain clothes with office-like but high-pressure faces stood behind him, showing their public security agent IDs.
There were other men near them who appeared to be hotel security guards, but seeing that they did not intend to stop the self-proclaimed security agents and merely glanced at him with a restless expression on their faces, the word security agents seemed serious.
In an instant, my heart was beating fast, and a cold sweat ran down Kwon Rim-soo’s back.
“ha ha ha… … !! This, this, this and this, comrades. To a good citizen like me who has nothing to be ashamed of… … .”
“Dog & Pig Games Senior Developer Kwon Rim-soo. I’ve known it all. Some of your comrades have already been caught in Pyongyang and burned them all down. If you follow me gently and blow your superiors, I will take that into account and reduce your sentence… … .”
“Hey, don’t lie! You bastards!”
“oh! Get out (run away)! Catch it!”
At first, Kwon Rim-soo, who had denied it, took a step backwards, then turned his back and started running with all his strength, and soon a chase across the splendid hotel lobby began.
‘Rotten! damn it! If caught, my life is over!’
When he was in Pyongyang, he used to be Kwon Rim-soo, a model Republican citizen who faithfully cooperated with public security checkpoints, but now the story is different.
Moreover, rumors circulated that the Ministry of Public Security, which replaced the former Ministry of People’s Security, was several times more tenacious, dense, and vicious than its former members.
Since the industry is an industry, Kwon Rim-soo picked up from here and there, these days, the rumor that even facial recognition cameras will be installed in the whole republic. Unlike the past security guards, they were hounds of a tight party that would punish them severely if they even tried to pay a bribe.
Once caught, that’s it.
Perhaps such a thought gave strength to Kwon Rim-soo’s legs, and his legs, which were far from movement, did not betray the owner, but freed him from the hands of the public security until he reached the main gate he had just passed through.
But the moment he just walks through the hotel door and breathes the cold winter night air in the mountains.
Koo!
“Ahhh!”
“Damn, it was good that I left the inside to the comrades from the Hamnam branch and waited at the door in advance. What’s so quick about San-nim, who’s been staring at the computer all day?”
“Isn’t gambling addiction more terrifying than addiction to Bingdu? I was waiting near Songrim’s house to catch it, but I didn’t even come home, so why did I immediately notice it all the way to Hamnam? It’s terrifying that his gambling is scary.”
As soon as he suddenly left the door, as soon as he heard the words echoing in his ears that had been hit on the floor, Kwon Rim-soo could not resist any more and stretched out to the floor.
Tears welled up in my eyes as I put handcuffs on both my arms.
It wasn’t because of the pain thrown on the cement floor, but because it seemed that marriage, his life, and his future seemed to be moving farther away.
* * *
“Hey, look at that. The new director of the Deep Investigation Department of the Ministry of Public Security has come all the way here.”
“What? No, no matter how new the investigation department is, a manager-level worker will take you directly to the mountainous areas of Hongcheon-gun? At least, you caught a coal mine gang member?”
“Isn’t this new director such a venomous comrade? A graduate of Kim University, he even drank water to study in the US with government funds, and from his first job, he was a minister-level worker at the Ministry of Public Security… … According to the rumors, he is often called by people from the top of the Central Committee, and he is also a member of the Central Party School, so he will be promoted to a higher position in the near future.”
“Because it’s a giraffe, the position of director is a short-lived gateway, isn’t it? Success in the core of the Party Central Committee is expected to be a winning party. I’m so young… … Do you think Bona Mana Abaddina and Omani are seated in the center of the party?”
“Shh, this man. I heard you!”
Kwon Rim-soo, who was being dragged by the convoy without handcuffs, turned his head to the direction they were looking at after hearing the public security agents who were talking about them nearby.
Indeed, at the same age as him, a young man with a cold-looking expression dressed in a well-dressed suit stood tall and listened to the reports of his subordinates despite the snow in the winter Hongwon mountains.
He is in his late twenties to early thirties, only about the same age as Kwon Rim-soo, but seeing the public security agents around him crouch and treat him like a boss, even in this situation, Kwon Rim-soo suddenly becomes a child for no reason. pushed up
‘Is that bastard so handsome? I met my parents well, and I was born into a good pedigree, so at the same age as me, I went to the core of the public security department, didn’t I? Anyway, the general secretary and this republic is all about being born under a wealthy and powerful Abbadi. In marriage, if you put out your hand, you will learn well, and good-natured wives and wives from good families will line up.
It was an irrational cry for being in a situation where the ‘bastard’ in question could decide one’s life or death with just one word, but this life seems to have come to an end anyway, so Kwon Rim-soo felt like it was going to be the way it should be. .
Despair about his future, with only the notice of dismissal and going to prison (prison), belated regret as to why he couldn’t quit even though he had a vague idea of what was going to happen, and the society and the party that made him this way, above all, this republic Anger and resentment were mixed in Kwon Rim-soo’s heart.
In fact, all of this is Kwon Rim-soo’s own self-improvement, but he rationalizes and justifies that it is the fault of the party and cadres who have ruined the republic so much that it is difficult to earn money and get married. There was only one left.
In the end, he was pushed by the rough hand of the public security officer and just before he got into the convoy, he committed a madness of ridiculing the new director, who stood without even looking at him, full of malice, inferiority, and humiliation.
“Hey, there, the so-called comrade with a rotten neck! How many grades do you get at the matchmaking agency for comrade? 1st grade? Grade 0?”
“… … ?”
“Anidi, Bona Mana You must have kept a generous amount of wealth behind you while working for the people and socialist ideology. Or is it just a matter of getting married because there are so many women who will voluntarily come to the core of the future party whenever they reach out their hand? I died of envy, but wait!!”
“Where does this crazy criminal mobster bastard dare to spit at anyone!”
“ね! damn… … !!!”
The public security agent who was escorting him to the ridicule of Kwon Rim-soo, who was under the influence of evil, thought he was crazy, and gave him a rough bite on his chin.
However, the young new director, who was watching the scene, quietly approached Kwon Rim-soo and opened his mouth with a calm voice.
“You think your life is completely over today. I mean, I’ve fallen enough to have nowhere else to fall. So, is it something you can put into words like that, comrade?”
“… … !?!? … … haha… … … … So is it different? look at me What, do you think there must be a different hole for survival?”
“I have been like that before. A time when I was betrayed by all my comrades who believed in me like my life, and I lost everything I had cherished in an instant and fell into the depths of hell. I thought it was all over then too, but looking back now, it was a hasty decision.”
“… … ?”
This time, Kwon Rim-soo tilted his head.
What is this new director trying to say, to mentally humiliate him one last time before sending him to jail?
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No, before that, why would he say this to someone like Kwon Rim-soo?However, the young director looked at Kwon Rim-soo up and down without hesitation, and continued to say things that sounded like upwards and some kind of advice.
“Perhaps the comrade himself thinks he has lived his life pursuing what he wants to the best of his ability, but in life, there is hardly any law that one thing is always the unchanging truth. The world is getting more complicated day by day. So, there is no way that those who are at the bottom now will continue to be at the bottom, isn’t it?”
“… … .”
“By the way, this is a story from experience, so please listen to it instead of listening to it as it is the sound of a central cadre who doesn’t know how to sit in a high seat and doesn’t know how the world works. Even someone who has collapsed once can pick it up and hit it, because it will be useful for its own sake. Go down… … .”
Ri Kyung-soo, the new head of the Deep Investigation Department of the Ministry of Public Security, added a word at the end, calling out Kwon Rim-soo, who was looking at him with blank eyes through the open car window.
“… … This is also a story of experience, but these days, the republican kyohwaso (prison) has changed to a comfortable place to live. At least I won’t have to work overtime in the future, so think about it in a good way.”
rumbling rumbling… … !!!!
With those words, the convoy carrying Kwon Rim-soo left, and Ri Kyung-soo took a step back and watched the vehicle disappearing into the snowy road in the distance.
Ri Kyung-soo quietly stared at his back as if sending back the past that had passed, then he turned his head to the other public security agents who were watching next to him.
“I… … Chief comrade… … ! It was a cold day and it was late, so please go inside. The casino manager here apologized for having a worker like comrade Lee come down here to Hongwon for such a miscellaneous work and said he would treat him well, but staying here today… … .”
“Put away the work that doesn’t work for that comrade, and tell us to cooperate by preserving evidence such as casino surveillance camera records. If we just add evidence to that comrade’s confession, we will be able to sweep the entire coal mining organization in Pyongyang at once.”
“… … If it’s a confession… … ?”
“I just said that I will sympathize well with that comrade because I have instilled hope in him. Try to convince them that if you cooperate gently (submissively), the sentence will be reduced. If you throw a rope at a person who is originally in the abyss, they are anxious to catch each other.”
Ri Kyung-soo, who instructed him to cut like that with a knife, for a moment looked at the Hongwon Land building, which stood like a fortress of desire in the pitch-black mountains of Hongwon, with a wretched eye.
In retrospect, the poisonous mushroom-like building of that republic contributed insignificantly to the poor friend becoming like that.
It could be said that it was his responsibility to gamble with his own feet, but for Ri Kyung-soo, who knows how well the Thames River is bragging about a guy like Hongwon Land as a new growth engine in the party, the building that looks like a symbol of corruption would look pretty. couldn’t
As it turns out, the current general secretary also clearly expressed an objection at the beginning, saying that domestic licensing for such a speculative industry would have too many side effects.
However, it was the present Democratic People’s Republic of Korea that had no choice but to yield his will in front of the cause of economic growth, even for the general secretary who said there was nothing to fear.
Yes.
Even General Secretary Kim Jeong-hwan.
Ri Kyung-soo, who had been thinking up to that point, stopped thinking and sighed once, and took a glimpse of Hongwon Land.
“I am going back to Pyongyang. Your comrades will finish the job well and see you at the main office.”
“ancient! Comrade Ri Kyung-soo, Director of the Intensive Investigation Office!”